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I have experienced it a couple of times in the 8 months or so I have had my Captivate (Galaxy S). One time it was due to a rogue application that was using heaps of CPU. Using OS monitor I discovered that an app/process had a load running consistently up at 50% or more.
Uninstalled the app, problem solved. For months I was getting 48-60 hours out of a single charge, which was absolutely brilliant.
Now I have a new battery drain, and it's proving very difficult to find. Checking OS monitor didn't help. No app sticking out like dogs balls hogging CPU this time.
I tried the advice in this thread;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=937080(preview)
Gone through it from end to end, and the battery drain is still there. The thread tells me I should be using roughly 1% per hour while on standby. Current widget tells me I am using 1% about every 5-8 minutes, which gives me 8-12 hours of battery life.
I have gone back and uninstalled a heaps of apps I no longer use, as well as uninstalling apps that I installed around the start of the time I noticed battery drain began. No good.
Checked all my settings, even experimented with turning off background sync (which I dont think is the problem, as I had it on when I was getting 2+ days of battery life), no good.
Using Titanium Backup, I went through and began "freezing" a couple of apps at a time, thinking I could find the application causing it that way. I sorted my apps by install date and started going back in time 2 or 3 apps at a time. No good.
However, I think I may have found a clue...
The other day, I turned my phone onto Flight mode, I can't remember why now. Anyway, I realised a few hours later that I forgot to turn Flight mode off. Looked at my battery and noticed, it had hardly dropped at all! Weird. As far as I can tell, I have the phone set up the way I did when I had great battery life. In some cases, I have even tried doing things I did not do when battery life was good (turning off background data, wifi etc). I still can't pinpoint the problem.
Who else has experienced battery drain on Android? What did you do to combat it? It's just frustrating knowing what my phone and battery are capable of and not being able to achieve it!
I have has that a couple of times too. The only way I have found to make it stop when it starts is to do a reboot. Like you it doesn't appear to be any specific app, the os is just eating battery. Once I reboot its great again. Hope this helps
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Well from a lot of different articles I have read, having a weak signal around you can cause a drain on the battery. The fact that the phone has to try to grab the signal harder than it should on top of getting then losing and having to re acquire the signal drains the battery.
I haven't done any tests myself but I find that I get great battery life when using the phone heavily while at home on the wifi network.
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jferg5 said:
I have has that a couple of times too. The only way I have found to make it stop when it starts is to do a reboot. Like you it doesn't appear to be any specific app, the os is just eating battery. Once I reboot its great again. Hope this helps
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Nah it's not that easy unfortunately. It's a problem I have had for a couple of months now. There has been many reboots in that time, none have solved the drain.
The only thing that did was putting the phone into airplane mode, which then make it a nice-looking paperweight.
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Well from a lot of different articles I have read, having a weak signal around you can cause a drain on the battery. The fact that the phone has to try to grab the signal harder than it should on top of getting then losing and having to re acquire the signal drains the battery.
I haven't done any tests myself but I find that I get great battery life when using the phone heavily while at home on the wifi network.
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It may be that, but I don't think so. As I said, I had great battery life using this ROM, and in the same locations as I do now with terrible battery life. I haven't moved, I still use the phone where I did before.
Cheers for the responses anyway guys. I appreciate it.
Google maps is a known battery drain even if not using it thanks to latitude trying to determine where you are. I would try freezing or uninstalling Google maps.
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Google maps is a known battery drain even if not using it thanks to latitude trying to determine where you are. I would try freezing or uninstalling Google maps.
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Thank you so much! It appears you are right. I "froze" Maps using Titanium Backup, and for 40 minutes my battery has been steady at 24% while on standby. Brilliant! Usually in that time I would drop 3-5%.
Now, the next question. How do I stop it? Does this mean I can no longer use Maps? I don't even use Latitude, but I see no option to uninstall it anywhere. Everything in it is turned off.
Not sure how to proceed from here. I do use Maps from time to time and would like to keep them if I can.
Just un-freeze it when you need it.
One thing that I did was start resetting my phone right before bed to terminate all the programs that I used through out the day.
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I have just upgraded to Serendipity 7, we'll see if that fixes the problem. If not, I may have to freeze Maps while not in use.
Well, after a battery calibration I am now getting 24-30 hours with moderate use. A long way from the 48-60 hours I used to get, but a lot better than the 10-12 hours of recent times. So I am half as well off as I was 3 months ago, but twice better off than I was a week ago.
Happy enough for now. Just wish I could pinpoint how I was getting that great battery life before!
I'm trying to track down my battery drain issue. It seems to be related to data usage, since when the wi-fi is off the data indicator is going pretty much constantly. Using various apps to locate the running processes. Seems that latitude is running quite a bit, but freezing maps with TiBu does not seen to have a significant effect. I am on Illuminance 3.0 with the Samurai Kernal 1.4.2, but I had similar problems on Illuminance 2.0.1 I have not tried other ROM's lately, but since others are reporting excellent battery usage I don't think it's the ROM. I tried a fresh flash with TiBu restore of apps only with selective data restore and no luck. I would post a screen shot, but I can't seem to figure out the screenshot app from the market. Any thoughts on how to track down the offending app?
Additionally, I am having issues with the search button randomly activating.
How long is your battery lasting? How does it compare to what it was before? You could definitely try uninstalling the offending apps completely if you don't use them. Also, to save battery, I recommend using JuiceDefender. I don't use it all the time, only when I know I don't need constant internet access all the time. You can simply toggle it on/off from the widget, and it automatically turns data on when you unlock your phone so you can use it normally from there. Basically it saves power when you aren't using your phone, at the cost of not receiving instant notifications.
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I'm trying to track down my battery drain issue. It seems to be related to data usage, since when the wi-fi is off the data indicator is going pretty much constantly. Using various apps to locate the running processes. Seems that latitude is running quite a bit, but freezing maps with TiBu does not seen to have a significant effect. I am on Illuminance 3.0 with the Samurai Kernal 1.4.2, but I had similar problems on Illuminance 2.0.1 I have not tried other ROM's lately, but since others are reporting excellent battery usage I don't think it's the ROM. I tried a fresh flash with TiBu restore of apps only with selective data restore and no luck. I would post a screen shot, but I can't seem to figure out the screenshot app from the market. Any thoughts on how to track down the offending app?
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I'm playing a similar game of hide and seek and configured very similarly to you. I've just recently changed to the Corn Kernel to see if things may be different, and have replaced the battery with a hi-cap alternative.
I keep coming back to the email app as it is always sits in the high 30's in the battery usage chart. Swapped in a third party email app and the percentages dropped to normal ... but lost the syncing of my calendars.
Keep us posted on anything you might turn up. The ROM is great .. I'd just like to get more than 6 hours out of the battery.
Seems to be my enhanced email app. Froze it this morning and went all day with no charge, 12 1/2 hours and down to 40%. About what I usually get out of this phone.
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Why is the battery drain on this phone soo bad?! I bought a 3900mah extended battery and i still cannot go a whole day without killing my battery! WTF, and i dont even use it that much. Im on stock Gingerbread v20p update.
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look at your battery stats
i have noticed that in my battery states that my phone stays "AWAKE" even when the screen is turned off for an extended period of time. I noticed that YAHOO! Mail app has a tendency of running constantly in the background keeping it awake. I noticed better life after uninstalling it.
SETTINGS / APPLICATIONS/ BATTERY USE then click on the small graph and tilt your phone to see it in landscape. Notice the change in the graph when your phone is awake vs. asleep.
I wish there was an app that told me when certain programs keep your phone "AWAKE" when the screen is off. That IMO, is the the real culprit!
Had a similar issue. Found google maps feasting on my battery when I wasn't looking. Kept turning it off but it would just turn back on till I noticed again. I figured out it was other apps with location services kicking it on. So I found a handy permissions editor from the play store and blocked the permissions to any app that wanted a location service. I also uninstalled any redundant apps that where stock but never used. Just went all day today on the stock battery with no need to charge.
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Had a similar issue. Found google maps feasting on my battery when I wasn't looking. Kept turning it off but it would just turn back on till I noticed again. I figured out it was other apps with location services kicking it on. So I found a handy permissions editor from the play store and blocked the permissions to any app that wanted a location service. I also uninstalled any redundant apps that where stock but never used. Just went all day today on the stock battery with no need to charge.
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do you remember the name of the app you used?
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i saw on other forums that an XDA developer wrote a great app called BETTERBATTERYSTATS. search XDA for it. it is free, but if you get it off of Google play it will cost a few dollars.
Using it I noticed that my Wifi was trying to turn itself on, but for some reason, at times, my wifi will not connect. if you force it, it just blinks at you 5 times and never turns on. Well, I think that some apps that use your wifi will turn it on, then if it wont connect, it continues to try until your battery dies.
I've had this issue with Bluetooth at times too. So since i rooted my phone, i have installed QUICKBOOT for those times to do a fast reboot which fixes wifi and bluetooth.
I have also purchased TASKER and told my phone to reboot at 3am every night. I still watch the betterbatterystats app to keep an eye on it and it seems to be fine.
i am also running the optimus 3D Gingerbread rom v21E on my Thrill and not the v20P AT&T stock rom. I had ghost call issues with AT&T's rom. (calls that people would make to me and the phone would never ring or show that they called). Hope this helps. With this rom i get 4g speeds (up to 10Mb) but not LTE speeds which is just a hair faster.
Think about adding Juice defender too to your catalog. recently i got my battery to last almost 24 hours!
Just started getting this a day ago. All syncs turned off, most Samsung apps frozen, literally nothing extra running in the background and can't get rid of this wake lock. No search results on it either, any idea guys?? Phone went from 100% to 64% overnight from 2am to 8am because of this. Won't stay in deep sleep.
Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread
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Same here. Just noticed this yesterday. Been searching and have found nothing. BTW, I'm 100% stock (not rooted).
Update 1:
Been playing around with basic settings.
Turned Wifi off : No change (IPC still running)
Turned GPS off : IPC stopped running!!! Still too early to tell, but is your GPS on?
Update 2:
Turned GPS back on : IPC did not restart (phone is now deep sleeping)
Going to turn Wifi back on ......
Update 3:
Wifi back on and IPC did not return. Hmmm, gone for now, but for how long. Still try turning off GPS as that is when it stopped for me (and has not returned even though I have turned GPS back on.) BTW, GPS was not showing as a battery drain while IPC was, it could have been coincidence, just documenting what I've tried.
Problem happened again this morning.
I turned GPS off, problem stopped.
I turned GPS back on and the problem did not return.
Still no root cause, but when it happens, cycling GPS seems to stop it (at least temporarily.)
Glad you found the solution. I finally gave up and just wiped my device because it was draining too fast. Will definitely use your solution in the future if it reappears
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My battery life was running perfect, I even bragged about it to friends then all of a sudden a few of days ago, I face the same exact issue. Until now, I can't figure it out. I already did 1 clean wipe (factory reset) and everything seem to be ok for 22 hrs. Then out of nowhere, Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread starts sucking my battery dry all over again. I tried toggling GPS and Wifi but no luck as it's still running in the background. I'm not sure if it's an app causing this or if it could possibly be from turning off a lot of bloatware?
I bet the option circled in my pic was on when you had the problems, right?
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I bet the option circled in my pic was on when you had the problems, right?
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Definitely not on or checked and I rarely enable GPS.
I haven't installed any new apps to my phone recently. Only 2 things i've done right before this started happening was 1. unlock my phone 2. turned off and force stopped dozens of ATT bloatware.
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Definitely not on or checked and I rarely enable GPS.
I haven't installed any new apps to my phone recently. Only 2 things i've done right before this started happening was 1. unlock my phone 2. turned off and force stopped dozens of ATT bloatware.
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Hmm bizarre man. I am not rooted but I have been getting excellent battery life with that box unchecked but with GPS actually on.
Sorry I was of no help.
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I am getting this wakelock as well. Happened after I froze some stuff, so I'm going to experiment.
l was getting this wake lock as well and noticed that in battery stats, the GPS was showing as always on despite every location option being turned off.
After reading up a bit, I uninstalled the task killer I was using. I think some program put in for a location hold without specifying a timeout for releasing it. The task killer then abruptly killed it, and the lock was never released.
Everything seems back to normal now after the uninstall and a reboot.
Hope this helps somebody.
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After factory resetting my device it went away. Now after two days of not changing any settings it is back
I too continue to randomly suffer from this problem. I'm finding that cycling GPS does not always work (neither does rebooting).
These "Android OS" wakelocks drive me crazy, its not "Android OS." can be uninstalled.
I'm still fairly convinced that it has something to do with Location (GPS). Could be weather, Google Maps, Google Now, ...
And this is back again. Does anyone have this?
Seriously I am not even installing apps from the playstore. After around 3 days it randomly comes back and doesn't stop. it consumes about one percent of battery every 3 minutes according to BBS. Thinking about selling the phone because of this.
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I too continue to randomly suffer from this problem. I'm finding that cycling GPS does not always work (neither does rebooting).
These "Android OS" wakelocks drive me crazy, its not "Android OS." can be uninstalled.
I'm still fairly convinced that it has something to do with Location (GPS). Could be weather, Google Maps, Google Now, ...
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Have you had any luck with this?
I just got back from a 1 month trip to Thailand. I took out ATT sim card and popped in a local SIM card by True Mobile with only 3G support. I had zero battery issues and no Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread for 1 whole month. Now that I am back from vacation, popped in ATT sim card, Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread is back in action draining my battery at a rate of almost 10% per hour. (Running stock with most recent ATT OTA update)
I wonder if this issue is directly tied with 3G/4G or SIM card use?
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I just got back from a 1 month trip to Thailand. I took out ATT sim card and popped in a local SIM card by True Mobile with only 3G support. I had zero battery issues and no Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread for 1 whole month. Now that I am back from vacation, popped in ATT sim card, Wakelock ipc00000024_er.serverthread is back in action draining my battery at a rate of almost 10% per hour. (Running stock with most recent ATT OTA update)
I wonder if this issue is directly tied with 3G/4G or SIM card use?
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Resurrecting an old thread. I've been getting this ipc wakelock for the past week. Is there anything that helps this? This is really frustrating.
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Resurrecting an old thread. I've been getting this ipc wakelock for the past week. Is there anything that helps this? This is really frustrating.
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The issue was never resolved. I ended up rooting and installing x-note rom which is currently running flawless. Smooth as silk, no ipc issues and battery life is insanely awesome. With stock battery i'm running 24-29 hrs moderate to heavy use. With my hyperion extended battery i'm running 48+ hours with atleast 10 hrs screen time. No battery drainage or non sense wake locks on X-note rom.
If I were you, i'd ditch the ATT stock rom, it's night and day.
I just started having the exact same ipc00000024_er.serverthread wake lock and I can't find a solution. Newly rooted, so I don't know if that has something to do with it.
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I just started having the exact same ipc00000024_er.serverthread wake lock and I can't find a solution. Newly rooted, so I don't know if that has something to do with it.
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There's nothing you can do if you're still running stock. I've tried to solve the problem for months.
Go install a custom rom, X-note 7 is badass. Kiss ipc000024 goodbye!
I was having issues with this wakelock as well. Toggling GPS on/off fixed it for me. Perhaps Ingress was locking the gps position... dunno.
---nevermind, it returns after a while just like the guys above mentioned---
I just got the AT&T update to 5.0 a few days ago, and the battery drain was incredibly fast, just like 8 hours when I first had it.
I did some checking around and finally did a factory reset from recovery, and that has helped a little. If I restart the device every few hours, it seems to help somehow...
But when I put it down at night, the battery drains down 50-60% in just the few 6 or 7 hours it lies there. I have tried apps like gsam and the stock usage monitor, and compared them to the process stats in developer mode, and come up with nothing. Most of the process stats are showing near or at 100%, by the way...
Another great side affect of the upgrade is now when I use Maps with location in high accuracy mode and hooked up to the charger, it gets really stupid hot. And it never used to do any of this before. Is this whole upgrade just a POS or is it just my device? i swear I used to get 2-3 days of battery before this. Help me save the upgrade before I roll it back to the old software, thanks.
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I just got the AT&T update to 5.0 a few days ago, and the battery drain was incredibly fast, just like 8 hours when I first had it.
I did some checking around and finally did a factory reset from recovery, and that has helped a little. If I restart the device every few hours, it seems to help somehow...
But when I put it down at night, the battery drains down 50-60% in just the few 6 or 7 hours it lies there. I have tried apps like gsam and the stock usage monitor, and compared them to the process stats in developer mode, and come up with nothing. Most of the process stats are showing near or at 100%, by the way...
Another great side affect of the upgrade is now when I use Maps with location in high accuracy mode and hooked up to the charger, it gets really stupid hot. And it never used to do any of this before. Is this whole upgrade just a POS or is it just my device? i swear I used to get 2-3 days of battery before this. Help me save the upgrade before I roll it back to the old software, thanks.
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Did you ota, or flash rooted 5.0? Sounds like a bad flash...if a factory reset didn't fix it I'd suggest downgrade back to ne4 and start fresh.
Mine and GF both g870a's and are running great on 5.0.
I took the OTA and then immediately did a factory reset.
I can't remember exactly, but also check that the OTA did not set GPS to auto update apps. I THINK it did on mine.
I'm also running great on 5.0 FYI
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I checked that and it wasn't the problem. I think I pinpointed the issue... I tried running in safe mode for a day with a small improvement, but not much.
Then I went back to normal mode and deleted each app separately and after three deletes, I got rid of the Weatherbug app and all is apparently better. I found some others posts on this forum regarding this app causing problems after an upgrade as well...
Any thoughts? I kinda liked that app.
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Any thoughts? I kinda liked that app.
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Although I like the tablet UI for this app much better...I've been running with the Weather Channel app for the last year...using static locations and not using MPoints. I am totally opposed to installing anything with Weather Bug in the name due to the amount of malware and ineffiencies found on PC versions of that app. I've forcibly removed and cleansed it from many a friends PC/laptops. YMMV.
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Now, a few days in, I can completely confirm it was the WeatherBug app. I have had three days without a charge (now sitting at 13%!) and it looks like it could go 5 without much use.
I am scared to try another weather app, but I'm gonna try the weather underground thing...